Mr Monger, who works as a mobile phone technician, then went into the back garden so his mother could hose him down while his sister Dina, 24, phoned an ambulance.

He was taken to the James Paget University Hospital at Gorleston-on-sea near Great Yarmouth and from there, he was transferred to the St Andrew's specialist burns unit at Broomfield Hospital, in Chelmsford, Essex.

He said: 'It did not seem to hurt at first, but then the paramedics put a special cream on my burns in the ambulance and I was in agony.

'My neighbours who are five doors down could hear me screaming in the back of the ambulance - but within five or ten minutes it felt a lot of better.'

He was discharged last weekend following the accident on Saturday, August 3.

Doctors have told him he should not suffer any scarring and he is now concentrating on recovering.